Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 30th, 2006
These are ubiquitous on websites at this time of year so here’s another. I won’t record any world events or current affairs as these can be found elsewhere ad nauseam. The BBC news website has a good one and I’m sure each of the TV channels will trot something out tomorrow night. So in 2006 [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 26th, 2006
I hope you all had a good Xmas. We’re having a little get together on New Year’s Eve. Nothing very exciting – probably just some drink, takeaway and embarrasing ourselves with Pictionary. We’ve got a fair bit of spirits that need drinking, some of them pretty exotic. I won’t list them all here, but chances [...]
Posted in Pictures on Dec 21st, 2006
Here are a few pictures from our BodyPump class last Saturday as promised. You can find the rest by clicking here. Find out more about BodyPump.
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 20th, 2006
Yesterday was another “last day”. This time at the Leicester Royal Infirmary from the anaesthetics job I’ve been doing for the last couple of months. Technically my last day is Fri but I’m on annual leave for 3 days so am back at home. My reference number for the visa has come through now, so [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Dec 16th, 2006
We’ve just tried the new release of BodyPump today. It’s been out for a week or so but this was my first exposure to it. I’ll give a brief rundown on each track: Warmup: A reasonable by-the-numbers track. Nothing particularly special but there are a lot of upright-rows and shoulder presses in it, which I’m [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 8th, 2006
Adelaide have just told me we have received approval from the Australian College of Anaesthetists for me to work there. This is a major obstacle out of the way and should remove any objections the immigration service have about letting me into the country. I’ve done the healthcheck and have a copy of my police [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 5th, 2006
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse – it did! England managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. I know that’s an exaggeration but when a team is up by almost a hundred runs, have 9 wickets in hand and only one day to go, you could be forgiven for [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 4th, 2006
I mean as an ethnic group rather than as a competition, of course! There is an insidious increase in suspicion and phobia associated with the Muslim faith. It doesn’t take a genius to work out the trigger was the 9/11 plane hijackings, and this wave of resentment seems to be increasing in volume. The global [...]
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